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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word is used to describe the size of the "white-washed" house Salvatore and Assunta buy?
(a) Tiny.
(b) Miniscule.
(c) Gigantic.
(d) Microscopic.

2. Why did Assunta not marry the man to whom she had been engaged?
(a) She ended the engagement when she learned he had cheated.
(b) He left her for another woman.
(c) He walked out on her and never returned.
(d) He was killed during military service.

3. What simile is used to describe Salvatore's hands while he bathes his children?
(a) Like flowers.
(b) Like buzzing bees.
(c) Like cold stones.
(d) Like sandpaper.

4. What type of fish did Salvatore catch during fishing season?
(a) Cod.
(b) Grouper.
(c) Cuttlefish.
(d) Seabass.

5. What simile is used to describe Salvatore's hands when he is not bathing his children?
(a) Like clouds.
(b) Like loaves of bread.
(c) Like legs of mutton.
(d) Like bricks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Salvatore's manners after marrying Assunta and moving to their home?

2. How is Salvatore's laughter described when he bathes his child?

3. What was Assunta able to purchase for Salvatore if they married?

4. What rare quality does the narrator say he was trying to paint a portrait of in his story "Salvatore"?

5. What does Salvatore tell his mother about Assunta?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

2. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

3. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

4. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

5. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

6. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

7. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

8. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

9. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

10. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

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